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Safe Routes to School

A bit of perspective on the getting-children-to-school-safely question.

The irony is that turistas will pay handsomely to enjoy the same privilege — one person’s risky infrastructure is another person’s quest to relieve the ineluctable boredom of modern life.

(thanks Rich!)

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Posted on Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009 at 12:05 pm by: Tom Vanderbilt
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A Friend Writes…

“I hate traffic! The band and the phenomenon.” Homer Simpson, from a recent episode.

(thanks Aaron).

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Posted on Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009 at 11:03 am by: Tom Vanderbilt
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Incidents of Travel

I’ve been down Yucatán way, mounting comparative explorations between the geometry of Mayan temples and the topes in las carreterras — well, not really, but it makes a good story for my accountant.

Much to catch up on after my internet-cation, but in the meantime my latest Slate column, on my adventures with an in-car feedback system, ran recently.

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Posted on Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009 at 10:56 am by: Tom Vanderbilt
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Traffic Tom Vanderbilt

How We Drive is the companion blog to Tom Vanderbilt’s New York Times bestselling book, Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us), published by Alfred A. Knopf in the U.S. and Canada, Penguin in the U.K, and in languages other than English by a number of other fine publishers worldwide.

Please send tips, news, research papers, links, photos (bad road signs, outrageous bumper stickers, spectacularly awful acts of driving or parking or anything traffic-related), or ideas for my Slate.com Transport column to me at: info@howwedrive.com.

For publicity inquiries, please contact Kate Runde at Vintage: krunde@randomhouse.com.

For editorial inquiries, please contact Zoe Pagnamenta at The Zoe Pagnamenta Agency: zoe@zpagency.com.

For speaking engagement inquiries, please contact
Jenna Meulemans at the Knopf Speaker Bureau.

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For UK publicity enquiries please contact Rosie Glaisher at Penguin.

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